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  • Most Wanted Particle

    The Inside Story of the Hunt for the Higgs, the Heart of the Future of Physics

    by Jon Butterworth ...
    An accessible account of the work leading up to the monumental discovery of the Higgs boson, from one of the physicists who was there.Particle physics as we know it depends on the Higgs boson: It's the missing link between the birth of our universe—as a sea of tiny, massless particles—and the tangible world we live in today. But for more than 50 years, scientists wondered: Does it exist?Physicist ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Atom Land

    A Guided Tour through the Strange (and Impossibly Small) World of Particle Physics

    by Jon Butterworth ...
    Narrated by Wayne Forester ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 36 min

    Atom Land brings the impossibly small world of particle physics to life, taking listeners on a guided journey through the subatomic world. Listeners will sail the subatomic seas in search of electron ports, boson continents, and hadron islands. The sea itself is the quantum field, complete with quantum waves. Beware dark energy and extra dimensions, embodied by fantastical sea creatures prowling ... Read more

    $27.95 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Blood & Iron

    Letters from the Western Front

    by Hugh Montagu Butterworth ...
    Until now Hugh Butterworth was just one of the millions of lost soldiers of the Great War, and the extraordinary letters he sent home from the Western Front have been forgotten. But after more than ninety years of obscurity, these letters, which describe his experience of war in poignant detail, have been rediscovered, and they are published here in full. They are a moving, intensely personal and ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cognition Switch #2

    by Martin Rees, Michael Shermer, Peter Staudenmaier, Sabine Hossenfelder, Kate Raworth, Benjamin G Martin, Noah Charney, David Wengrow, Kimberley Brownlee, Tali Sharot, Robert Simpson, Thea Bechshoft, Jon Butterworth, Bill Nye, Huw Price, Henry Cowles ...
    Series Book 2 - Cognition Switch
    Cognition Switch: An Artefact for the Transmission of New IdeasIssue #2: January 2019Featuring Ideas by:Michael Shermer, Peter Staudenmaier, Sabine Hossenfelder, Kate Raworth, Benjamin G Martin, Noah Charney, David Wengrow, Kimberley Brownlee, Tali Sharot, Robert Simpson, Thea Bechshoft, Martin Rees, Jon Butterworth, Bill Nye, Huw Price, and Henry Cowles ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Confessions of a Mullah Warrior

    by Masood Farivar ...
    Narrated by Christopher Lane ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 36 min

    “If you liked The Kite Runner, you must read this riveting, firsthand account by one of the real Afghan mujahideen . . . An extraordinary tale.” —Leslie CockburnMasood Farivar was ten years old when his childhood in peaceful and prosperous Afghanistan was shattered by the Soviet invasion of 1979. Although he was born into a long line of religious and political leaders who had shaped his nation’s ... Read more

    $20.60 CAD

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    Sacred Liberty

    America's Long, Bloody, and Ongoing Struggle for Religious Freedom

    by Steven Waldman ...
    Narrated by David Colacci ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 43 min

    Sacred Liberty offers a dramatic, sweeping survey of how America built a unique model of religious freedom, perhaps the nation’s “greatest invention.” Steven Waldman, the bestselling author of Founding Faith, shows how early ideas about religious liberty were tested and refined amidst the brutal persecution of Catholics, Baptists, Mormons, Quakers, African slaves, Native Americans, Muslims, Jews ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

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    Weird in a World That's Not

    A Career Guide for Misfits, F*ckups, and Failures

    by Jennifer Romolini ...
    Narrated by Em Eldridge ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 11 min

    An honest, sharp-witted, practical guide to help you get and keep the job you want—from an outsider whose been there and done it, a woman who went from being a broke, divorced, college dropout to running some of the biggest websites in the world.Jennifer Romolini started her career as an awkward twenty-seven-year-old misfit, navigated her way through New York media and became a boss—an editor-in ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

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    Awkward

    The Science of Why We're Socially Awkward and Why That's Awesome

    by Ty Tashiro ...
    Narrated by George Newbern ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 57 min

    In the vein of Quiet and The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth comes this illuminating look at what it means to be awkward—and how the same traits that make us socially anxious and cause embarrassing faux pas also provide the seeds for extraordinary success.As humans, we all need to belong. While modern social life can make even the best of us feel gawky, for roughly one in five of us, navigating its ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

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    More Deadly Than War

    The Hidden History of the Spanish Flu and the First World War

    by Kenneth C. Davis ...
    Narrated by MacLeod Andrews, Adenrele Ojo ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 40 min

    From bestselling author Kenneth C. Davis comes a fascinating account of the Spanish influenza pandemic 100 years after it first swept the world in 1918."Davis deftly juggles compelling storytelling, gruesome details, and historical context. More Deadly Than War reads like a terrifying dystopian novel-that happens to be true." -Steve Sheinkin, author of Bomb and UndefeatedWith 2018 marking the ... Read more

    $21.00 CAD

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    Ninja Future

    Secrets to Success in the New World of Innovation

    by Gary Shapiro ...
    Narrated by Gary Shapiro ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 24 min

    Ninja Future is an essential read for businesses and individuals striving to remain competitive in a rapidly evolving world: Gary Shapiro, the president and CEO of the Consumer Technology Association, casts his eye toward the future, charting how the innovative technologies of today will transform not only the way business is done but society itself.During his more than three decades at the head ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

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    Applied Minds

    How Engineers Think

    by Guru Madhavan ...
    Narrated by Sean Pratt ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 22 min

    A journey inside the minds that build our world.Dubai's Burj Khalifa-the world’s tallest building-looks nothing like Microsoft’s Office Suite, and digital surround sound doesn’t work like a citywide telecommunication grid. Yet these engineering feats have much in common.Applied Minds explores the unique visions and mental tools of engineers to reveal the enormous-and often understated-influence ... Read more

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    The Lost World of the Old Ones

    Discoveries in the Ancient Southwest

    by David Roberts ...
    Narrated by Shawn Compton ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 27 min

    An award-winning author and veteran mountain climber takes us deep into the Southwest backcountry to uncover secrets of its ancient inhabitants.In this thrilling story of intellectual and archaeological discovery, David Roberts recounts his last twenty years of far-flung exploits in search of spectacular prehistoric ruins and rock art panels known to very few modern travelers. His adventures range ... Read more

    $35.72 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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